He has also argued--in the pages of the WSJ--that the United States should reclaim Wrangel Island from the Russians.

www.wsj.com/articles/rus...

Dans has been a big booster of Trump's plans to acquire Greenland, has frequently appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast, and was involved in arranging both Don Jr.'s trip to Nuuk in Jan 2025 and the Vance's disastrous trip to Greenland later that same yr.
www.ft.com/content/b2aa...

In 2023 I interviewed several of the children who were at the hunting camp with their parents when the B-52 bomber crashed.

Reporting for @inthesetimes.com and @typeinvestigations.org

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It would take decades for the full story to come to light, along with revelations that the U.S. had built a secret missile launch facility under the ice sheet (Camp Century), about 150 miles east of the military base. All of this activity was done without the knowledge of the Greenlandic people. 3/

Local hunters at a nearby camp were dispatched to help with search, rescue, and cleanup but were not informed of the risk they were taking. It was the middle of January. Bitterly cold. No daylight.

Years later, nearly all of these men died of cancer. 2/

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We make fun of Danish dogsled teams operating in Greenland--entirely appropriate given the terrain--and can't even feed our own troops in Alaska.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

We make fun of Danish dogsled teams operating in Greenland--entirely appropriate given the terrain--and can't even feed our own troops in Alaska.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Soft power tools had been pretty effective at both keeping China out and advancing US interests. In a single year, the Trump administration has blown up whatever goodwill there was.
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When I traveled to Greenland and Qaanaaq in 2023, I was genuinely surprised to learn that, despite everything mentioned above, there was a great deal of affection for the US. Denmark was often blamed for actions that we were responsible for. We were the good cop.
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and Denmark to deal with, along with all of the other waste from our military installations. In 1968 a B-52 bomber carrying 4 thermonuclear weapons crashed on the ice near Thule (now Pituffik) & local hunters were dispatched to search for survivors and help with cleanup. Many later died of cancer.

I took a very clear-eyed look at US policy in the region. The forced relocation of Inuit families to expand the US military base--formerly known as Thule--in the early 1950s. The covert storage of nuclear weapons under the ice sheet (Camp Century), which was later abandoned and left for Greenland...